chemagazine.jpgThat’s the bizarre conclusion drawn from the results of a recent survey by affair-facilitating website IllicitEncounters, despite the fact that none of the financial services hacks surveyed responded to the question, “Why are you cheating” with the answer “because the public just isn’t giving it to me like it used to.” Here’s what they did say:
* “Just want to feel loved”
* “For the thrill”
* “Unstable home life”
* “To escape the mundane”
* “To boost the ego”
* “To avoid costly divorces”
* “To lavish my hard earned money on someone”
* “I’m entitled to it”
* “Because I can”
* “Peer pressure”


Obviously though, perhaps we’re just not reading between the lines. Maybe the longer version of the Goldman Sachs employee’s response “just want to feel loved” is “just want to feel loved; wouldn’t have to B my L on some T’s that don’t belong to my W if the public would stop hating on me.” Regardless of your decision to dip your wick in someone strange sweet, take heart! You no longer have to hide it from your colleagues. Everybody does it and they want you to talk about it:

Says one respondent: “Where I work, many of the tops dogs are open about their affairs. Having a mistress is like having a flash car.”

Comments (79)

  1. Posted by NakedShort | December 2, 2009 at 10:57 AM

    Hey, it’s, uh, it’s NakedShort. I need you to do me a huge favor. Um, can you please, uh, take my name off my posts on your website. My wife went through my web history. And, uh, may be posting here. If you can, please take my name off that and, um, and what do you call it just have it as a website, just have it as everyone posting as guest. That’s it, OK. You gotta do this for me. Huge. Quickly. All right. Bye

  2. Posted by CoveredLong | December 2, 2009 at 10:58 AM

    This economy’s driven Tiger to chase tail!

  3. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM

    Best tags ever.

  4. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM

    I’m not alone!!
    -TW

  5. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:01 AM

    * “To feel like a woman again”
    -P Jiang

  6. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:03 AM

    @5 ftw

  7. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM

    “To lavish my hard earned money on someone”?
    gayest response ever

  8. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:07 AM

    Once again, because of the damn Dealbreaker comments, I had to explain to the 2 oil traders why I was giggling at my work station. They were discussing the pleats in their Hong Kong made, custom fitted suit pants and they looked at me like I was interrupting a “strategy” meeting.

  9. Posted by Becky Boot Fan | December 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM

    “Because I want to _______________ and my wife won’t let me do it to her.”
    *Fill in the blanks. Winner gets a year of free office visits to Dr. Mantis Tobaggan, M.D.

  10. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:10 AM

    *”It’s fun to do bad things”

  11. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:11 AM

    “because I have a dick, and I’m an idiot”

  12. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:11 AM

    Bess, you are gonna be a great mom some day. Just sayin’.
    @9/BBF you first, please, I enjoy reading your perspective on intimate matters.

  13. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:11 AM

    “I let my dick talk for me”

  14. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM

    Only risk left worth taking. Rather have a clawed-back than a clawback.

  15. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM

    Tiger’s under the bed…..
    Phil

  16. Posted by turd_ferguson | December 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM

    Bess, thanks for that picture it moved me.

  17. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM

    @8 = jealous

  18. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM

    Good to know its only bankers who cheat on their spouses.
    ~Warren in Omaha

  19. Posted by Seaman Bodine II | December 2, 2009 at 11:16 AM

    The married guy in the photo is obviously a queer. Why else would he have a tan overcoat?

  20. Posted by Sluggard Haste | December 2, 2009 at 11:18 AM

    @18 – it’s not cheating if your wife approves.
    Astrid

  21. Posted by Becky Boot Fan | December 2, 2009 at 11:18 AM

    @12, thank you, don’t mind if I do!
    survey says…AngryPirate.

  22. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:18 AM

    @SBII and only a closeted homophobe queer like yourself would see that pic and focus on the guy’s sartorial choices.

  23. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM

    @9 line her pussy with chocolate sauce.
    -SAC

  24. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM

    good JO material

  25. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:24 AM

    BBF,
    “[...] wear a scream mask [...]”
    That’s honestly my reasoning.
    -William Jeffersonian Clintonion

  26. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM

    “peer pressure”…..”flash car”….
    What firm is this?

  27. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:29 AM

    SAC@22 wow and ftw

  28. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:29 AM

    8- pleats? really? mc hammer is trading oil these days?

  29. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM

    @17…..a #2 oil trader is a person who was looking for a job running a massage parlor but found the #2 oil job first.

  30. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM

    @9 “Bess, you are gonna be a great mom some day. Just sayin’.”
    what from this post made you draw that conclusion?

  31. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM

    I never cheated…
    on my wife…can i go home now?
    B. Madoff

  32. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:31 AM

    “to feel sensy”

  33. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:35 AM

    @30
    Just everything.
    You’re not a girl, are you?
    -12
    PS Thanks, 21/BBF, you exceeded my expectations.

  34. Posted by american bandersnatch | December 2, 2009 at 11:37 AM

    flash car? I thought Limeys were too uptight to admit to cheating.

  35. Posted by Jaimee Grubbs | December 2, 2009 at 11:41 AM

    @1/Naked, sorry, but I think I’d rather just sell you out to get on TV. Shoulda paid me off, stud.

  36. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:42 AM

    @33 no, I’m a guy…not saying bess won’t be the best mom eva, but what about this post indicates that?
    -30

  37. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:47 AM

    Bernie: Honey I’m dying, I haven’t had sex in a month.
    Ruth: You’ve been in here for 2 months.

  38. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:47 AM

    @37,30…Are you saying what you are saying now ISN’T what you were saying?
    ~AIG Quant

  39. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:51 AM

    @37
    I don’t want to derail this thread further. Mostly the love. And the feeling that she understands and indulges us, but she doesn’t fall for any bullshit.
    -12/33

  40. Posted by Tax Chick | December 2, 2009 at 11:52 AM

    @SBII/19 – the guy is obviously queer because he isn’t stripping naked upon discovering his wife/ girlfriend is sleeping with another woman!

  41. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:53 AM

    @22, the male model may well be gay, and thinking there was a hot boy inside the wardrobe. He was probably as surprised as the dame on the bed to see a chick.
    Agree with you about the homophobia; it’s the closested gays that yell the loudest about “queers”. When are the homophobes who post their fag comments gonna’ realize they ain’t fooling anyone except themselves and their closeted buds?

  42. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:54 AM

    * “Because Nomos Capital is my broker.”

  43. Posted by Anal_yst | December 2, 2009 at 11:55 AM

    I’ve never heard of this Che Men’s magazine, but their ads/covers are awesome, where do I sign up?!
    http://www.scaryideas.com/content/4057/

  44. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM

    Could we maybe get a homo banker’s take on the whole mise en scene?

  45. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 11:59 AM
  46. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM

    It moved.
    ~Meredith Baxter

  47. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:06 PM

    Because the public will attack me for conspicuous consumption, I must partake in promiscuous consumption.
    -GS Banker

  48. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:10 PM

    42 is the Greg Louganis of the message board. I can smell the lesions

  49. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:14 PM

    Re: the last tag – looks like someone is affected a little too much by broken marriages. Bess, do you have something to share? I’ll give you a shoulder to lean on. And by ‘shoulder’, I mean testicle.

  50. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:15 PM

    @43, what sewer did you pop out of?

  51. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:16 PM

    @50 actually it looks like bess was being sarcastic– for a change– and rolling her eyes (/tongue) at the article’s conclusion that it’s the public’s fault bankers are cheating.

  52. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:24 PM

    @ 19-Yes, everyone who wear a colored coat must be queer.

  53. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:25 PM

    @ 19-Yes, everyone who wear a colored coat is queer.

  54. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:25 PM

    @ 19-Yes, everyone who wear a colored coat is queer.

  55. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM

    @19, triple posting bastard: What do you mean by “colored”??
    ~Nat X

  56. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM

    My C&Bs need to merge with a transparent coat in order to stay hetero.

  57. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM

    @51 = inadvertent reponse to @43. Intended for @49 and his creepy, pathological comments. Dude, go see a shrink! You’ve got serious issues.

  58. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:30 PM

    @19…I apologize….I meant @53,54,55….I am the black sheep of the commentariat today. WAIT!! What do I mean by “black sheep”???
    ~Nat X

  59. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:31 PM

    @11 — you repeated yourself
    @53, 54, 55 — triple posters are queer

  60. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:32 PM

    “Went to a bulge bracket x-mas party w/wives….fright night”

  61. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:38 PM

    Maybe so, but I am not.
    53,54,55

  62. Posted by Seaman Bodine II | December 2, 2009 at 12:39 PM

    No – I just think the guy looks like a unilateral-sexual.

  63. Posted by NakedShort | December 2, 2009 at 12:45 PM

    @9/BBF
    “Because I want to quit my job, watch Sportscenter, play Wii, eat Salt and Vinegar Chips and drink Crown Royal all day and my wife won’t let me do it to her.”

  64. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 12:46 PM

    58, I do see a shrink. His name is Freud, he told me to do a bunch of yay. So every Thursday me and Mr. Kudblow go to his apartment, do fat rails and talk about how gay everyone else is. And what I’ve come to realize is everyone is a super, big dumb homo gay.

  65. Posted by Lowly Assistant | December 2, 2009 at 12:47 PM

    64/NS,
    Crown? You’re an even better man than originally thought. Godspeed.

  66. Posted by pfluger | December 2, 2009 at 12:54 PM

    “I will only do this for 18 months, after which I expect to have a whole new attitude, and then everything will be different.”
    - Rahmo

  67. Posted by NakedShort | December 2, 2009 at 12:56 PM

    @66/LA
    I was in a Crown induced haze about 9 months ago when I gave them a call to see if there would be anyway for them to custom build a purple Crown Royal bag for my loved ones to slide my casket in when I go.
    They said no.

  68. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 1:04 PM

    23=CoTD.

  69. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 1:10 PM

    Wait, the guy walks in on two girls and he has a problem? Seems to me, a settlement can be reached whereby all three are happy.

  70. Posted by Lowly Assistant | December 2, 2009 at 1:12 PM

    68/NS,
    Nice! True story: in college, my ex-girlfriend kicked me out of the ‘rent’s chalet during winter break, and forced me to sleep in her car. I had my winter jacket, a 1/5 of crown, a pack of smokes, and that fucking pouch to keep my hands warm. Servicey!
    Story of my goddamned life.

  71. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM

    @9: “talk about my feelings.”
    LOL, j/k, bukakke.

  72. Posted by Joe Mac | December 2, 2009 at 1:39 PM

    “Collies bow down before me”
    You Know

  73. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 2:21 PM

    Dealbreaker was made specifically for articles like this one.
    Bess, A+ for the tags.

  74. Posted by NotNasser | December 2, 2009 at 3:55 PM

    Things like this happen to me all the time. Except that I walk in on my wife while the ugly next-door neighbor, who looks like Gladys Kravitz from Bewitched, is in the closet naked. Ewwwww.
    – not Darrin Stevens

  75. Posted by e_anthony58 | December 2, 2009 at 4:55 PM

    Who would ever cheat on Erin Burnett? No one.
    Who would ever cheat on Maria? I think we all would…and vice versa.
    lol.

  76. Posted by DOS | December 2, 2009 at 6:11 PM

    Another day brightener Bess! Gentlemen: You guys are brutal, but very, very funny.
    Sidebar to Elin…Grow up! All that and monagomy too??? I don’t think so.

  77. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 6:58 PM

    I think I’d go lesbian for the chick on the bed.

  78. Posted by guest | December 2, 2009 at 7:39 PM

    @ 78- Really? I wouldn’t, but then again I don’t think I would go lesbian for anyone.

  79. Posted by guesticles | December 2, 2009 at 11:22 PM

    @9
    cuddle after she fists me

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